"I find it difficult to imagine an afterlife, such as Christians, or at any rate many religious people, conceive it, believing that the conversations with relatives and friends interrupted here on eart…"

"The camera cannot compete with the brush and palette, it is far too clumsy."

"The viewer should feel the pain, the joy, the love, the hate, the fear, the horror."

"The angels of fear, sorrow, and death stood by my side since the day I was born."

"I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in Hell."